TinyChat Can Be the Glue for Your Social Networks

When you have accounts on multiple social networks and services, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. We have seen many services pop up to help us aggregate our content and deal with the information overload. TinyChat is a service that can actually help glue these separate networks together and get more value from the connections you’ve made.

TinyChat allows you to quickly create a spontaneous chat room and distribute a link that allows others to join. You don’t have to sign-up, you don’t have to login, you don’t even have to name the room anything. You just click a button, share the link, and chat. You don’t have to specifically invite anyone, just make sure they see the link.

The chat room works right in the browser. There is no software to download or plugins to install. It’s dead simple. Despite what many may say, there is not a service this simple for creating a chat room.

Pulling It All Together

The primary reason I think TinyChat is awesome is the fact that I can easily provide a portal for all my peeps to talk in the same place with minimal effort. Not just the people connected to me on one site or service, but on all sites and services.

I regularly post across different social networks. I’d like to be able to chat with everyone at the same time, but it’s not really possible. I’ve got people on Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, MySpace, iMeem, Rejaw and more. With TinyChat, I could:

• Create a chat
• Share the link everywhere (probably using Ping.fm)
• Sit back and enjoy the discussion

You may have seen Scobleizer and others do the same on Twitter using FriendFeed as the discussion point, but this would still require you to sign up for an account on FriendFeed. Using TinyChat, there is no signup process.

For more information on TinyChat, including new feature updates and bug fixes, check out the shiny new tinychat blog or follow them on Twitter.